Much of the FBI investigation into the shooting at the Sikh temple Sunday centers on understanding what motivated the killing spree.

Agents are retracing Wade Page's steps looking for clues.

They're tracing his digital footprints and his actual footprints in hopes of explaining what provoked Sunday's massacre.

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The FBI agent-in-charge said agents have interviewed more than 100 relatives, friends and co-workers of Page's and issued 180 subpoenas in its effort to reconstruct his final movements.

"We are reviewing voluminous electronic records from Page's email accounts, his telephone. We're combing DOT traffic videos, neighborhood security videos. We have conducted physical searches of his residence, his vehicle, a rented storage locker and also a space he had at a former employer," Teresa Carlson said.

WISN 12 News has learned the FBI visited the Best Western hotel at the airport Tuesday, which is a short distance from the Sikh temple.

"What were they asking?" WISN 12 News reporter Colleen Henry asked.

"They were just trying to see if he had stopped by and tried to check in or anything," General Manager Mark Johnson said.

"None of your staff remembers a guy like that?" Henry asked.

"We were sold out that weekend with Germanfest and groups like that," Johnson said.

Johnson said staff doesn't recall seeing Page.

"They've been checking all the places around here," Johnson said.

But 12 News checked the other airport hotels. None had heard from the FBI.

"I wonder if the FBI was here asking if Wade Page stayed here?" Henry asked a worker at the Super 8 Hotel.

"Actually, they didn't come here," the desk manager said.

The FBI did not respond to 12 News' inquiries about the Best Western.

The Anti-Defamation League told WISN 12 News it's been sharing its information about Page's racist activities with the feds.

The ADL said Page was an active poster on the hate site, Hammerskin, where he used the screen name End Apathy.

Page promoted his white power bands: "Definite Haze is looking for a new drummer. Must be a skinhead, committed to White Power and the movement, and have the skills to pay the bills."

"Unfortunately, there were no signs with Mr. Page that he was going to take this racist ideology into violence and action. Otherwise, we would have been able to give this info to law enforcement," said ADL spokesman Lonnie Nasati.